Happy Labor Day! I hope you have a restful day with good weather! I was talking yesterday before church to our new Barren Co Circuit Clerk and got some bad news. She said that very recently, their office was ordered to ship all the "old" Circuit Court cases to Frankfort and they aren't supposed to become involved in genealogy; people will have to go to Frankfort to see the old records. The dates? 1799-1980's. This is happening in all Ky Circuit Court offices. I have heard a rumor (but have not confirmed) that the same demands will be placed on the County Clerk's office. Our County Clerk's office has, for several years, been photostating all the old deed books, will books, etc. and placing the photocopied books on the shelves - really well done and easier to work with as the books can be opened and individual pages taken to the copy machine. They have also had a young lady working with the marriages. She has been photostating all the old marriages (with all permisison slips, etc) and putting them in a book, indexed, and pulling the original documents from the files. I am 100% supportive of this and they have been trying to get this done for a long time due to the fragility of the old documents and to keep the originals from being lost or stolen. I am trusting that they will be allowed to keep the photo copied documents if they have to send the originals to Frankfort. However, there are a lot of books there I haven't transcribed (or others), including the Order Books (past book 5), etc. I will be checking with them this week to see if this transfer will effect them and how. Supposedly one can write Frankfort and get copies of the old documents but until they are all catalogued or if you have a file number, I'm not sure how this will work. If you're hanging around the house today, Charlie has posted the puzzler for the week, an easy one for a change! If you want to give it a try, click on gensoup in my signature line and give it a try. Have a good day - see you tomorrow! Sandi Sandi's Puzzlers: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gensoup/gorin/puz.html SCKY Links: http://www.public.asu.edu/~moore/Gorin.html GGP: http://ggpublishing.tripod.com/